Developing constructions

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 191-199

  Lieven, Elena ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Language acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Usage based approaches

Indexed keywords

EID: 60349107986     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COGL.2009.012     Document Type: Article

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